HEL Read this excerpt from "It's My Constitutional Rightl"
What differences can be found when contrasting the
mood of the first-person account with that of the third-
person point of view?
When he went away, I looked around me. three bare
walls, a tolet, and a cot. Then I fel down on my knees
in the middle of the cell and started crying again. I didn't
know if anyone knew where I was or what had
happened to me. I had no idea how long I would be
there. I cried and I put my hands together and prayed
like I had never prayed before.
O Claudette is lonely and desperate in jail, while her
friends and family are lonely and helpless thinking
about her situation.
Claude is angry and violent in jail, while her
friends are hopeless and alone without her.
O Claudette is lonely and desperate in jail, while
friends and family are frantically working together.
Meanwhile, schoolmates who had been on the bus had
run home and telephoned Claudette's mother at the
house where she worked as a maid. Girls went over
and took care of the lady's three small children so that
Claudette's mother could leave. Mary Ann Colvin called
Claudette's pastor, the Reverend H. H. Johnson. He
had a car, and together they sped to the police station.
O Claudette is angry and violent in jail, while her
friends are arguing bitterly about how to help her.